The Go Memory Model
The Go memory model specifies when memory write operations become visible to other goroutines and, more importantly, when these visibility guarantees do not exist. As developers, we can skip over the details of the memory model by following a few guidelines when developing concurrent programs. Regardless, as mentioned before, obvious bugs are caught easily in QA, and bugs that happen in production usually cannot be reproduced in the development environment, and you may be forced to analyze the program behavior by reading code. A good knowledge of the memory model is helpful when this happens.
In this chapter, we will discuss the following:
- Why a memory model is necessary
- The happened-before relationship between memory operations
- Synchronization characteristics of Go concurrency primitives
